“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, again we begin slowly. I am sure you understand the reasons.

Now give us time…. He felt that any success of his that was not matched by you pulled you down in your parents’ eyes, and was therefore part victory and part defeat. He did fear that you would become bitter if you did not succeed (as a painter), and he sometimes felt that you retreated to the studio away from him, as purposely your father retreated from your mother into the cellar or garage. He would rather have burned anything that you have rather than store it in your family’s house. Symbolically this threatened him. He mentioned it on several occasions, but you made a reasonable reply having to do with convenience, and so he brooded.

(When Jane returned I told her about it. I believed the answer I had received, saying that the pendulum hadn’t steered me wrong yet on any major question. For obvious reasons I hadn’t asked this question before. Resume at 10:01.)